Metaphysical Quotations

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme...

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.